Design Icons Amsterdam

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Design Icons is the name for a new Amsterdam initiative in vintage. 63 Dealers in vintage furniture participate and will display their treasures in a former shipyard.  This industrial location is the perfect backdrop for the display of fifties design and more. Design Icons Amsterdam will take place this Saturday and Sunday. Hopefully by that [...]

Olde Good Things

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More and more Architects and Interior Designers do make use of old building materials. The other day I saw a pair of Art Deco doors in red copper being installed in an Amsterdam townhouse and remembered that pair I saw standing at the Chelsea store of Olde Good Things. This concept in architectural and altered [...]

New York’s Vintage Deco Treasures

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Last September I visited the 1STDIBSNew York showroom, and was impressed by its Vintage Deco treasures. Dealers that are participants of this Antiques and Vintage Deco online gallery  have taken a lot of time, money, and energy to display interesting parts of their collections at the 10th floor of the New York Design Centre (NYDC). [...]

Oscar Chairs by Sergio Rodrigues

Oscar Chair, in Beech No 5, by Sergio Rodrigues, to purchase via Epasso New York

Oscar Chairs have been designed by the famous* Brazilian designer Sergio Rodrigues. Oscar is available in 2 versions; with a caned- or upholstered Seat and  Back. Although this fifties Design is Brazilian, it does show some similarities with the Thonet bentwood Chairs from the late nineteen Century and the Danish Chair Designs by Hans Wegner [...]